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Immigration law requires employers, including healthcare organizations, to verify the employment eligibility of each employee by completing and maintaining I-9 forms. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS") issued a new I-9 form for Employment Eligibility Verification on July 17, 2017 which must be used beginning September 18, 2017. The new I-9 form is available at https://www.uscis.gov/i-9.
While there is a new version of the form, the "Form I-9" has been required to be completed by all U.S. employers for every employee hired after November 7, 1986. The penalties have increased over the years, but for now remain the same as last year. If your healthcare organization has failed to complete and retain the I-9 forms, it is better to complete and date them as of now rather than wait until an auditor arrives.